Why XMR is the only currency new buyers should be funding with
Bitcoin still works on Nexus Market for legacy balances. Funding a new account with it in is, to put the matter plainly, an avoidable mistake.
The case for funding a new Nexus account with Monero (XMR) rather than Bitcoin in 2026 has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with chain-analysis economics. Bitcoin's transaction graph is fully public and has been ingested, indexed, and clustered by every commercial blockchain analytics firm currently operating. Monero's transaction graph is, in the strict sense, not public at all.
That asymmetry is the single most important fact a new buyer needs to know. A Bitcoin deposit into a darknet market UTXO can, in principle, be retrospectively linked to your funding KYC exchange months or years after the fact. A Monero deposit cannot, because the protocol-level ring signatures and stealth addresses prevent the very kind of clustering that makes Bitcoin chain analysis work.
The Nexus settlement rail
Nexus operates a Monero-default settlement rail. New accounts are routed to XMR on signup, balances accrue in atomic units, and conversions to fiat-denominated UI labels are a presentation concern rather than a settlement event. Vendors withdraw in the same currency they were paid in. Buyer-side, the 2-of-3 multisig escrow contract works identically on both rails, but the privacy properties of the surrounding chain only deliver under XMR.
Bitcoin is supported on Nexus exclusively for migration of legacy buyer balances. The platform actively nudges existing BTC users toward XMR funding via UI prompts and a higher confirmation threshold on Bitcoin deposits. New buyers should treat Bitcoin support as a feature for someone else.
Tooling
For the mechanically minded: Feather Wallet on desktop, Cake Wallet on mobile, the official Monero CLI for the patient. Every reputable wallet supports view-key import, ring-size selection, and the seed-only restore flow. Skip any web wallet that asks for the seed in a browser form — that is, by construction, not a self-custodial wallet.
Working Nexus Market mirrors
Below are the three v3 onion addresses currently serving the production market, signed with the platform's PGP key (fingerprint 0x7F2A0A9D). Use the Copy button — never retype an onion by hand.